MolluscaBase - Lymnaea megasoma Say, 1824

MolluscaBase name details

Lymnaea megasoma Say, 1824

AphiaID

724487 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:724487)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Bulimnea megasoma (Say, 1824)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Bulimnea Haldeman, 1841
Limnea (Bulimnaea) Haldeman, 1841

Parent

Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Lymnaeus megasomus Say, 1824

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Lymnaeus megasomus Say, 1824) Say, T. (1824). Class Mollusca. In: Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. performed in the year 1823, by order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, Major U. S. T. E. compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs Say, Keating, and Calhoun, by William H. Keating, A. M. &c. H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Philadelphia. 2: 256-266, plates 14-15, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13640689
page(s): 263, pl. 15, fig. 10 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lymnaea megasoma Say, 1824. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724487 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-04-06 07:06:05Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-09-24 19:46:03Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

2021-11-09 16:45:32Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

2022-12-14 13:55:56Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

Licensing

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Sources (2)

original description (of Lymnaeus megasomus Say, 1824) Say, T. (1824). Class Mollusca. In: Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. performed in the year 1823, by order of The Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, Major U. S. T. E. compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs Say, Keating, and Calhoun, by William H. Keating, A. M. &c. H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Philadelphia. 2: 256-266, plates 14-15, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13640689
page(s): 263, pl. 15, fig. 10 [details]

basis of record Latchford, F. R. (1906). <i>Lymnaea megasoma</i>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 20(7): 83., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1757614 [details]